CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Bombay in 2007 by Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand. It has been producing fundamental new work in film and video, electronic media, public art and archiving forms, in a practice characterised by a hand-dirtying, non-alienated relation to technology. From their home base in Mumbai, they co-host the online archives pad.ma (est. 2008) and indiancine.ma (est. 2013) and run a rooftop cinema for the past 15 years.
CAMP’s artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including recent solos at the Sharjah Art Foundation, (2021); Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels, and the De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Documenta 13 (2012) and Documenta 14 film program (2017), in the streets and markets of Bangalore, San Jose, Dakar, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Kolkata, Kabul, Delhi, Ljubljana and Bombay; in the biennials of Shanghai, Sharjah, Gwangju, Taipei, Singapore, Liverpool, Chicago, Lahore and Kochi-Muziris; at film platforms like the London Film Festival, Viennale, FID Marseille, Flaherty Seminar and the Anthology Film Archives, and in art institutions such as Khoj, Sarai-CSDS, KNMA, Lalit Kala Akademi and NGMA, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, MoMA, New Museum, Queens Museum and e-flux New York, Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, and Gasworks London, HKW and Savvy, Berlin, Ars Electronica, Linz, MoMA Warsaw, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Palestinian Museum, Birzeit to name a few. In October 2020 they were awarded the 7th Nam June Paik Centre Prize.